Tuesday, August 04, 2009

The problem with assumptions

I've been talking with several people lately about assumptions - particularly the unwarranted kind. Here's something that speaks to our often habitual tendency to operate and make decisions on the basis of assumptions that we haven't checked out:

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - it saves so much trouble.

-- Rudyard Kipling

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